Psychiatry and Its Discontents, Paperback - Andrew Scull

Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical pers...

Reducere. This book contains the most important interviews and speeches that Prof. Hudson has given over the past decade (2003-2012). They span the political...

This powerful, unsettling audiobook gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobe...

Reducere. A critical exploration of the transformation of urban space through platform technologies such as Uber and AirbnbThis collection of essays explores...

Reducere. Civilization and Its Discontents' is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929...

Reducere. With a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier A Salon Best Book of the Year In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool---a sleek and unforgivi...

Reducere. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize w...

Publisher: Broadview Press LtdAuthor(s): Sigmund FreudNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 153 x 216 x 14Cover type: Paperback / s...

Slavoj Zizek and Srecko Horvat combine their critical clout to emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe's growing wealth gap and the parallel rise ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Written in the decade before Freud s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, d...

Close to the Machine, Ellen Ullman's cult classic memoir of the world of computers in the 1980s and early 1990s is an insight into a world we rarel...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Andrew ScullNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 240 x 41Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in thei...

Reducere. O istorie culturala a nebuniei. De la Biblie la Freud, de la casa de nebuni la medicina moderna Cu 128 de ilustratii, din care 44 de planse color D...

A series of investigative accounts from scholar-activists and housing campaign groups across the UK charts the diverse aims, tactics and strategies...

DescriptionThe first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum pra...

A fascinating account of this socially constructed disease that came to be strongly associated with women, showing the shifts, cultural and medical...

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Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Maria BoletsiNumber of pages: 328Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 2013Dim...

This volume considers the ways in which alternative worldviews, fostered by advances in twentieth century natural science and other intellectual de...

Considering the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, the author focuses on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest d...

This book draws on a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, and feminist t...

Contributor(s): Author: Andrew ScullMadness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar,...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

O istorie culturala a nebuniei (editia 2023) - Andrew Scull

Reducere. This book builds upon my previous work, A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (MacDonald 1994/2002; hereafter P...

Reducere. Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What ...

Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it's easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transfor...

Our contemporary celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, and avowal of identity politics have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of a p...

Using original interviews with estate residents in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration and its impacts on marginalised com...

A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Francis FukuyamaNumber of pages: 192Publicatio...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Nina PowerNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 223 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

We are told that we live in a post ideological era; that we have moved 'beyond Left and Right'; and that we are 'all in it together'. Democracy has...

Based on rich oral histories from over two hundred interviews in West Africa, Europe, and North America, this engaging study of dual citizenship an...

Reducere. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction....

DescriptionThe death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and the mar...

Michelle Pannor Silver considers how we confront the mismatch between idealized and actual retirement. She follows doctors, CEOs, elite athletes, p...

Jerry M. Kantor examines the success of homeopathic psychiatric asylums in America from the post-Civil War era until 1920.Publisher: Inner Traditio...

'A brilliant cultural history ... Scull's book fills a gap in the literature and deserves to be widely read ... outstanding' The Times

Reducere. This book helps you to distinguish depression from similar looking, but fundamentally different, mental states such as guilt, sloth, the darkness o...

Ricardo Rubinstein explores contemporary culture and its discontents - including subjectivity, fanaticism, panic attacks, technology, and pandemics...

Reissue of a wonderfully evocative book that reflects a place and a taste never to be forgotten once sampled: the perfect book to curl up with in f...

Reducere. BETTY NEWMAN WAUER was proud of her great, great aunt Sally Scull. Sally was a strong, spirited, and bright pioneer during the nineteenth century. ...

Exam Board: OCR Level: A-Level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2016 Target success in OCR A-level History with t...

Reducere. This brief primer provides knowledge that will reduce therapists' initial anxiety and heighten their competence in working with outpatients; it cov...

In a dying world of wild magic, shapeshifters and warring tyrants an unlikely fellowship is formed of self-righteous outlaws, crippled turncoats an...

An exploration of Kasimir Malevich's Black Square and its precursors.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Andrew SpiraIllustration(s): 77 illustrati...